David Gerard
the guy who got Elon and Grimes to hook up, destroying Twitter and proceeding to blow up the United States
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23rd August 2026English
6·4 days agoI’m using Zencastr cos the free tier is the right price and I’ve found my way to evade most of the AI crap thankfully. “New recording” on the front page or in existing sessions seems to take you to the bit that actually does shit.
I just record with it, I grab the MOV and WAV files and I put it together from that and (after much faff) upload to YouTube and Libsyn. I shudder at the thought of Libsyn going AI, cos otherwise they just do a good job of hosting the mp3 files and running the RSS and I can get onto Apple without having to interact with Apple.
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23rd August 2026English
9·4 days agocan we kick aella and her friends out of perversion
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Anthropic watermarks AI output — and the AI bros yellEnglish
4·4 days agoyeah. The word-choice watermarking is an interesting trick for a paper, needs quite a chunk of text, will have a ghastly rate of both false positives and false negatives in real world fraud detection, and is evidently good enough for Gemini not to drink too much its own piss but not much else.
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Anthropic watermarks AI output — and the AI bros yellEnglish
5·5 days agonow awaiting the Daria crossover
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 16th August 2026English
7·6 days agoWorm x blockchain fanfic
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
SneerClub@awful.systems•my Rationalist Sense smells Effective Altruists all over thisEnglish
2·7 days agooh it’s worse, people send me this shit
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 16th August 2026English
7·7 days agoShort punchy writing? GO SHORTER.
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
SneerClub@awful.systems•my Rationalist Sense smells Effective Altruists all over thisEnglish
8·7 days agosomeone who has crossed paths with the EAs previously sent it to me!
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 16th August 2026English
7·8 days agotop quality extremely offended dork
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 16th August 2026English
9·11 days agolisp went big in the leadup to the AI winter, which followed a lot of fraudulent nonsense that even the DoD would only buy for so long
so in that sense it’s in character
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
SneerClub@awful.systems•UK gov org AISI is functionally an EA frontEnglish
8·11 days agoyep, it’s “us too!” on those
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 16th August 2026English
8·11 days agoworse yet, Amazon actually has uses for that much data centre
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
SneerClub@awful.systems•Gwern: I am retiring from fulltime writing (& pseudonymity) to launch **Guardian Angel Inc** and bring GAs to life.English
3·15 days agowell, somewhat. about as readable.
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•The AI doomsday cult recruits social media influencersEnglish
5·16 days agothis should really be sneerclub i guess, pretend i put it there too
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 9th August 2026English
4·18 days agowhy you little
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Aschenbrenner bet everything on AI — and lostEnglish
11·18 days agoyoutube comments:
Couldnt happen to a nicer slender man
Are we entering the “identifying who will be going to prison” stage of this scam now? I’d love it as this is my favorite part.
“Situational Awareness”?, what’s the next of the next company, “Object Permanence”?
How on earth could that kid walk and talk without forgetting to breathe. I assume he’s writing a fucking book. Sorry. ‘Writing’ a fucking ‘book’
When I was 24, guys like that were just that weirdo from school who you met once on the street in Dublin and asked him what he was up to and he told you he was working somewhere you’d never heard of and you never heard of him again. Now these gobshites are in charge of serious things and serious money, as well as being famous.
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•The AI bubble is already popping; we just don't know it yetEnglish
12·18 days agoyes, routinely. the CDO bubble of the 2000s took from 2006 to 2009 to deflate, with first warnings in 2005
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
SneerClub@awful.systems•Our friends open brokerage accountsEnglish
3·22 days agoMitchell, you’ve been around rationalism long enough.




















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